Embattled Mel Gibson had an odd encounter with the paparazzi in Los Angeles on Monday, as he attempted to film a snapper in the back of a car on his camera phone.

A smiling Gibson stepped out of his Mercedes after spotting a paparazzo on his tail, and walked back up the street to confront the photographer filming all the way.

But he wasn’t expecting the barrage of pertinent questions, which was hurled at him as the two men filmed each other.

In the footage, which debuted on new U.S. show Access Hollywood Live on Tuesday, the actor/director asked the snapper to wind his window down so he could get a good shot of him on his phone, and asked, “What’s the matter, got nothing better to do?”

The photographer obliged and decided to use the opportunity to quiz Gibson about his summer legal woes with ex-girlfriend Oksana Grigorieva, who accused the Braveheart star of lashing out at her in a fight.

The snapper asked, “I just wondered if you really hit Oksana,” and then added, “Do you think you’ll ever make a movie in Hollywood again?”

The paparazzo continued, calling out Gibson for remarks he has allegedly made against Jews, blacks, Latinos and homosexuals, adding, “Do you ever think you’ll ever get anybody of any race or any creed or sexual orientation ever to work for you for free from all the different colleges you asked for free interns from?”

The smile never slipped from cool Gibson’s face as he fixed his camera phone on the snapper, and the actor responded by stating, “You got a lot of dialogue, don’t you.”

The snapper asked, “Do you have anything to say for yourself?”, prompting Gibson to retort, “Not to you, I just wanted to film you… Thanks for following us around.”

And when the snapper revealed he was a card-carrying member of the Screen Actors Guild, the Aussie actor cracked, “Wanna job? I guess you need one.”

Before walking away, the movie star added one final salvo, asking, “What’s it like sniffing other people’s laundry?”

But the snapper got the last word in, shouting after Gibson, “Hey, do you think I can have my money back for all the tickets I had to pay for those movies? I’m filing a class action lawsuit on behalf of the whole world.”